Ian MacEachern was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, on January 13, 1942.
He worked as a TV cameraman in Sydney, N.S. and Moncton, N.B. and, in 1962, moved to Saint John to work for CHSJ-TV. Soon after, he began taking photographs in his spare time. Prompted by the many fires and impending urban renewal, his camera turned to documenting the changing face of the city in the mid 1960s. During this time he also worked as a theatre photographer for the Rothesay Playhouse (Summer Stock 1963-1966).
In 1966, MacEachern moved to Toronto where he worked as a freelance photojournalist for various magazines. A year later he was hired as a studio cameraman for CBC Toronto.
MacEachern moved to London, Ontario in 1968 to continue freelance photography as a magazine and industrial photojournalist. He also taught photography at H. B. Beal Secondary School, Fanshawe Community College, and The University of Western Ontario.
Ian MacEachern’s photographs have been published in artscanada, Canadian Magazine, Chatelaine, The Imperial Oil Review, London Magazine, Maclean’s, Ontario Living, Quest, Saturday Night, Shell News, The Star Weekly Magazine, Site Sound, and Time Canada. He was the principal photographer for Symbols of Aspiration; Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario, an exhibition and book published by University of Toronto Press in 1986.
MacEachern has done various assignments for Canadian Cancer Society, CBC-TV, EMCO Limited, Ex-Cell-O Corporation, London Life Insurance Company, The London Public Library and Art Museum, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Northern Telecom, and Talbot Theatre (London, Ont.), and The University of Western Ontario Information Services.
Ian MacEachern has had several one-man shows in Canada and the United States as well as various group exhibitions. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the McIntosh Gallery at The University of Western Ontario and in several private collections.
Ian MacEachern lives in London, Ontario.
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